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[strangecreature]

Picked up change for an old lady at the grocery store when her wallet exploded and got called sweet. Instant karmic payoff: overhearing the cashiers (one male, one female) locked in a debate about whether Captain Jack or Ianto was cuter. And then got home to find a card from loves_bitch in my mailbox, with a proper wax seal on the envelope! <3 As the cool

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[chlare]

'So few' books and yet you still managed to read two a month on average! That's pretty good to me. :) (Pssst, Douglas Coupland is so hi-larious - have you read Microserfs?)

[strangecreature]

Aw, I like your sense of perspective! <3 (I haven't! I've read Hey Nostradamus and, I think, Life After God and quite liked 'em.)

[strangecreature]

I really liked that one too! And there are two movie versions of the thing apparently, neither of which I even knew about until now.

\o/ Oh man!! Dude... I'll totally read that and report back! :-DDD

Hmm... If you like clever darkish novels like Catch-22 and 1984, you'd probably like Not Wanted On The Voyage by Timothy Findley. That got my best pick a few years back, I think, and it's relatively short to get you back into the swing of fiction successfully. ;-)

[strangefrontier]

Graphic novels and trade paperbacks of comics absolutely count. :)

I have the same reaction to Douglas Coupland's novels. Love them, couldn't possibly recount a plot after finishing one! Generation X is one of my all time favourite books.

I really must read Oryx and Crake at some point, your squee has piqued my interest!

[strangecreature]

Ha! Okay, I'm so glad it's not just me suffering the Coupland effect! I think it's probably just because they tend to be short and the kind of books you blaze through in a couple of days.

Eee, you should, you should! Atwood should do dystopian sci-fi far more often!

[elebridith]

...wow. Still impressive number! I wanted to finish my book list yesterday, alas, we had to move furniture the whole day since my parents get new bedroom furniture and have to clean out old stuff. I had the day off and of course I helped... hope to do it today!!

And I decided, to get me reading more, to make a sticky post with "books to read". I used up my voucher yesterday, got three new crime novels, yay!! And then I realized that I still haven't read the trilogy I bought at the end of *2008*. *headsdesk* So if it pops up every time I open LJ, maybe that helps. *g*

[strangecreature]

Aw! Hope you aren't thwarted by furniture for too much longer!

Hey, that's clever... I should really do that to get the pile of unread books lying around my place down a bit before I move!